B.G. Hilton - Writer - Steampunk, Frankenstein, Fantasy soap operas, Leonard Nimoy and More

Younger readers may not recall That’s Incredible. This is probably for the best. The easiest way to describe the show was that it was the 1980s equivalent of watching dumb shit on Youtube for an hour.

In Search Of S05E03: Lee Harvey Oswald

We open on some suspenseful music as a largely unseen figure walks across a deserted room to a window, aims a rifle and fires. Let

In Search Of… S05E02 Faith Healers

We open on faith healing as the term is usually used in modern America. A preacher with a strong Southern accent is trying to heal parishioners with dramatic flourishes and very bad organ music.

Villains and Prequels

A little while back, I wrote an article mocking the Netflix series Ratched. This was a somewhat enjoyable but mostly quite silly show that purported

Tales of Frankenstein – 2018

This one is a little tough to write about because a) it’s genuinely bad and b) I quite like it. It’s cheaply made, amateurishly acted

Patent Medicines

There is an expectation in this day and age that a medication should do something. You go to a doctor, the doctor gives you a

Have You Seen the Shah?

In 1873, the Shah of Persia visited Europe and Britain. Nasar al-Din Shah Qajar was the first modern Persian ruler to travel in Europe. He

Jurassic Park – 1993

The dead are brought back to life using technology, and then turn on their creators, so sounds like a Frankenstein movie to me. But it goes a little further than that superficial similarity.